PCR swab tests that look for viral RNA have become the gold standard for identifying infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but their results aren't 100% accurate. This week in mSystems, researchers report that testing for ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 12, 2022
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New research shows that the flavoring of various soft cheeses is due in part to the bacteria that colonize them during the ripening process. The research is published in Microbiology Spectrum.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 16, 2022
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As long as humans have been around, there have been pathogens to make us sick. Some have achieved infamy in human history—the bubonic plague, for example, or smallpox—and with modern technologies, scientists can time-travel ...
Evolution
Oct 17, 2022
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The growing threat of antimicrobial resistance has led researchers to search for new compounds everywhere. This week in mBio, a multinational team of researchers in Europe report the discovery of a new antifungal antibiotic ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 10, 2022
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Belgian investigators have improved the flavor of contemporary beer by identifying and engineering a gene that is responsible for much of the flavor of beer and some other alcoholic drinks. The research appears in Applied ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 4, 2022
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Research on decomposition often focuses on environmental factors like temperature or humidity, but researchers at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville have taken a closer look at contributions from the inside of the body. ...
Ecology
Sep 22, 2022
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Less than 500 miles from the North Pole, the Milne Fiord Epishelf Lake is a unique freshwater lake that floats atop the Arctic Ocean, held in place only by a coating of ice. The lake is dominated by single-celled organisms, ...
Ecology
Aug 30, 2022
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Recent outbreaks of food-borne Salmonella have been associated with chocolate and peanut butter. Although Salmonella cannot grow in either of these low-water foods, the cells survive, becoming more resistant to heat treatment, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 8, 2022
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Soils influence water quality, and they are critical to plant growth. However, it has been difficult to predict how plant growth and water quality would change in the wake of wildfires. Now, a team of Colorado investigators ...
Ecology
Jul 25, 2022
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The emergence of multicellularity, requiring complex interactions between different groups of individual cells for metabolic and physiological benefits, is a great success in the history of biology. While multicellularity ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 19, 2022
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